Acacius of Seleucia-Ctesiphon

Acacius of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (425-496) was Patriarch of the East from 485 to 497, succeeding Barsauma and preceding Babai of Seleucia-Ctesiphon.

Biography
Acacius was born in 425, and the bishops who had fled from Barsauma met at Seleucia and consecrated Acacius as their Catholicus. Barsauma forced him to accept his views, as Acacius had gone to the same school as him, and he befriended him. He convened a synod which reaffirmed the Church of the East's commitment to Nestorianism, and he was sent by the Shah of Persia to serve as an ambassador to the Byzantine emperor. In 497 AD, the monks of Tur Abdin mobbed him in the church and killed him with the keys of their cells, and he was buried in Nisibis.